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stra⋅bot⋅o⋅my

  [struh-bot-uh-mee]
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–noun, plural -mies. Surgery.
the operation of cutting one or more of the muscles of the eye to correct strabismus.
Origin:
1855–60; < Gk strabó(s) (see strabismus ) + -tomy
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stra·bot·o·my   (strə-bŏt'ə-mē)   
n.   pl. stra·bot·o·mies
Surgical incision of a muscle or tendon of the eye to correct strabismus.

[Greek strabos, squinting; see streb(h)- in Indo-European roots + -tomy.]
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strabotomy stra·bot·o·my (strə-bŏt'ə-mē)
n.
Surgical division of one or more of the ocular muscles or their tendons for the correction of strabismus.

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